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From: Brian Woodcox <bw@inskydata.com>
Subject: Re: Having a problem invoking curl only when using guix pull
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 16:53:35 -0600
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> Perhaps all you need is to include the curl package in your package's
> native-inputs field.
>=20
> Also as a side note, I'm not entirely sure if using open-input-pipe =
would be
> considered good practice for packages as far as reproducibility is =
concerned.
> Perhaps someone else can comment on that.
> But another option you might want to consider is using the built in =
web modules.
> For example:
>=20
>   #:use-module (web client)
>   #:use-module (web uri)
>   ...
>     (let* ((out (call-with-values (lambda () (http-get (string->uri =
%api-url)))
>                   (lambda (response body) body)))
>            ...
>=20
> I'm not sure if that's the most elegant way to do it, but it seems to =
work.
> There's also a curl module for guile, although I'm not sure if guix =
will let you
> import it or not.

Hi ison,

Unfortunately that doesn=E2=80=99t work, due to tls not being available.

See the bug I reported here =E2=80=94> =
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guile/2019-04/msg00008.html =
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guile/2019-04/msg00008.html>

Thanks for the effort though.

Brian.=